THE SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
Some Tory members of parliament at lunch here recently brought up the subject of the tariff on imported cars. It was a week or two before Mr Davies's surely calculated in- discretion. The general sense was that the removal of the tariff would be an excellent thing. None of the MPS was connected with the Department for Trade and industry. so it was not as if one of them was doing a bit of kite-flying. I have no doubt that very serious Consideration indeed is being given to the en- tire question of protective tariff barriers; and the sort of serious consideration 1 mean is that which begins by asking 'Is there any good reason at all why we should protect these people? Would it not be a most ex- cellent idea to set a good example to all in- dustry by removing protection on imported cars? Why cars? Pour encourager les mitres.'
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